Motivational Quotes

Change

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.